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by joosters 9y ago
The self-service checkouts is a good point - but in my experience at least 10% of those are regularly out of service, and they are large systems that are meant to be robust. I can't see how that will scale up to thousands of product li
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by joosters 9y ago
The entrance turnstiles make the shop look very family-unfriendly. How do you go shopping with kids? Or just while out with a friend?
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by joosters 9y ago
So the system requires each subsection of a shelf to have a working weight sensor? Is that really do-able in a shop where the general public will be repeatedly knocking, bashing and generally ill-treating it? Most regular stores that I&#x27
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by joosters 9y ago
Perhaps governments might be considering the implications for more people than just the airlines and the airport owners? Like, for example, all the people who would lose their homes in the airport expansions or have their lives ruined by th
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by joosters 9y ago
r/buttcoin, one of the sanest cryptocurrency subreddits out there in this blockchain madness.
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by joosters 9y ago
Why should crypto currencies get special tax treatment?
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by joosters 9y ago
Again, it's not a yes/no flag. The question is rather ' what error happened?' - in which case, it makes eminent sense for 'no error' to be the first exit code, hence 0.
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by joosters 9y ago
That's not really related to it being a bot, though. For any form of trading (whether manually or through some form of automation), of course there's going be some choice of buys & sells that return a profit. How you choose su
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by joosters 9y ago
That's nothing to do with the language! UNIX processes return an exit code, not a true/false flag.
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by joosters 9y ago
They won't be able to achieve anything like 2GB/s when handling reads from swap, because they are likely to be lots of small chunks of reads - the pages being swapped in are often 4k and will be very difficult to predict, so bulk
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by joosters 9y ago
I think people are going to be increasingly wary of second hand graphics cards. How many of them will have been trashed by running in a poorly-cooled mining rig for months on end?
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by joosters 9y ago
How much money did you lose from the NiceHash 'hack' ? And are you still trusting them?
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by joosters 9y ago
So is HTTP. Better disable that too.
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by joosters 9y ago
Indeed, that's the key difference. Steemit coins inherently require trust in steemit, since without the website's existence, the coins have no use at all. As everyone is implicitly having to trust steemit, there's no benefit
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by joosters 9y ago
The only project that comes somewhat close to that is OpenBazaar, and that is buggy and unwieldy, despite four years of development and millions in funding. The implementation requires a complex mess of software installs (even for potential
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by joosters 9y ago
The steemit coins, as I understand it, have little to no other use (unless 'speculation/gambling' is a use case) so they don't need to be crypto coins at all. Instead they could be magic internet points that are all acco
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by joosters 9y ago
You'd better tell DuckDuckGo that their non-tracking, non-intrusive adverts aren't going to make them money then!
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by joosters 9y ago
Ripple is not trustless, so the blockchain part of it is moot. Since you have to trust Ripple (because they have full control), you might as well let them store the blockchain data on their own centrally controlled database.
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by joosters 9y ago
Why? Putting blockchain in there just adds more FX transfers. USD<->GBP now becomes USD<->BTC<->GBP, so why would you expect that to reduce costs and improve efficiency?
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by joosters 9y ago
There's no safeguard here. The smart contract is a red herring. Smart contracts cannot see or alter the real world, they have to trust that someone does that for them. In the example of the charging station, there's no safeguard t
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by joosters 9y ago
Once again, the blockchain part of this adds nothing to the process, apart from complexity. Is the charging process now trustless? Nope, because I still need to trust that once I make my deposit the real-world charging station will honour t
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by joosters 9y ago
There's nothing there that is impossible without a blockchain. The steemit website might as well issue its tokens using a simple database. Running it on a blockchain adds nothing except a 'shiny new technology' feel.
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by joosters 9y ago
Some progress in eight years would be good, though!
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by joosters 9y ago
Asset issuance, voting, wills, identity/reputation systems, land registries. All of which reach beyond the blockchain. No-one is going to care that a 'smart contract' says that Alice owns a plot of land when Bob holds the r
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by joosters 9y ago
Just because each block has had gigawatts of computing power thrown at it doesn't make the block's contents correct, or 'the truth'. Case in point: every stolen bitcoin or ethereum wallet. The blockchain is storing the w
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by joosters 9y ago
Now you have lots of extra complexity and multiple points of failure instead of just one.
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by joosters 9y ago
But all your examples are possible (and have been successfully implemented) without a blockchain. So what does the chain add? Besides which, when is turning abundance into scarcity a good thing?
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by joosters 9y ago
If your code doesn't reach out beyond the blockchain, then there's very little it can actually do. You are limited to twiddling balances of coins. This turns out to be great for making casinos and ponzi schemes, but little else. T
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by joosters 9y ago
But again, the civil liability will be on companies, who are even further removed from the direct, visceral experience of killing a person. Like you, I'm sure that there was an insurance company paying out some money for funeral costs
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by joosters 9y ago
I'm not suggesting that the legal system would throw their hands up and exclaim "There's too many possible parties at fault! Let's not blame any of them!" Instead, as you say, many parties could be held liable. Nota

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